황지우 시에 나타난 유령의 귀환과 기억, 애도의 문제—1980년대 초기 시를 중심으로

Abstract

This study intented to deal with the problem of the return of ‘specters’ and the ‘authenticity’ of the 1980s appearing in Hwang Ji-woo’s poems in the early ‘80s. The authenticity of the ‘80s is an important part of how to remember and mourn the theme of ‘The Gwangju May 1980’ . In the text of Hwang Ji-woo’s early poems, the ‘specter’ who returns and stares at the poetic subject reminds us of the unresolved matters of ‘The Gwangju May’s case in 1980, and asks for its responsibility. In addition, the return of the specter is not a matter of ethics confined to ‘The Gwangju May’ . The themes of memory and oblivion of the past are also deeply linked to the matter of continuation and loss of politicality and historicity. Jacques Derrida’s hantologie discussed the ethics for the others that put in a demurrer the nowness and create the continuity with the past through the de-synchronization of time and the issue of anachrony. In Hwang Ji-woo’s early poems, the specter constantly returns, questioning the crisis of memory and the crisis of politics. The subject facing the return of the specter is not forgetting the problem of history and continuing to mourn the deaths of the past. On the other hand, those who lose their past and historicity and forget about the various reasons of oblivion, such as the expansion of capitalism and the flooding of American culture, have no choice but to live like live corpse. Hwang Jiwoo saw two symmetrical lives in his day: It is the life of continuing to meet specters, continuing historical ethics, and of forgetting the past and piggybacking on the tide of the times. We will look at the subjects of life who think and conflict with the memory and ethics of politics and history in Hwang Ji-woo’s poems.